Positionality
Your librarian is a cisgender, able-bodied, white woman. Due to my positionality, I have limits and hidden biases. This guide is a work in progress and not exhaustive coverage. I am working to gather resources that will support our work as a School of Education and Human Development at a PWI (predominantly white institution) with a legacy of oppression, repression, and white supremacy. Feedback and suggestions are encouraged.
Recognition Statement
At the University of Virginia Library in Charlottesville, we acknowledge that the land where we learn and work is the ancestral homeland and traditional territory of the Monacan Indian Nation. We pay respect to their elders and knowledge keepers — past and present.
We acknowledge and pay respect to the enslaved Africans, enslaved laborers, and free Black laborers who built UVA, as well as their descendants.
Today we acknowledge the land, we acknowledge labor, traditions, and knowledge, and we acknowledge lives.
EHD 2021-2022 Common Read
You can access Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning as an eBook through the Library. We have 11 eBook copies available. Check availability here.
The Common Read is a signature, School of Education and Human Development-wide event that provides opportunities for school-wide discussion. The Office of DEI and EHD’s Diversity Action Committee are proud to announce the 2021-2022 Common Read: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (2020). Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. Binding these essays together is Hong's theory of "minor feelings." Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. Given the rising rates of Asian-American hates crimes, made worst as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Common Read invites us into anti-racist reflections around the Asian and Asian American community on Grounds and beyond.